Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summit...
...serious misinformation it contains. On the basis of the most authoritative examination of the real facts, I am able to inform your readers that contrary to your correspondent's assertions, the Prime Minister did not take a day off from his governmental duties shortly before the Haifa summit with President Sadat; he was not driven to a "secluded laboratory" or to any other location for a physical checkup, and he has never met with a team of "three non-Israeli neurological experts." He could, therefore, never have been examined by them. In particular, the Prime Minister never met with...
...dazzling promotions continued. Volcker rose to Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, took time out for four years as a Chase vice president, then neared the summit of global finance when President Richard Nixon brought him back to Treasury to defend the dollar against attacks from abroad. Volcker did all he could, at one point flying 31,000 miles in five days. But the pressure on the dollar was too great: twice Volcker had to preside over the humiliation of the dollar being devalued...
...mood. More than 150,000 of them (out of a population of 1.9 million) showed up at the Albrook rally, which was attended by Vice President Walter Mondale and the leaders of many Latin American governments. They shrieked in joy as Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, fresh from his summit with Jimmy Carter, praised "the disappearance of the humiliating injustice of the enclave that has long divided" Central America. Notably absent from the ceremonies was Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera, who had negotiated the pact with the U.S. He apparently did not wish to upstage his hand-picked successor...
...Haig and I went to Nixon's refuge in the Executive Office Building. Somewhat exultantly, I told the President that it looked as if he had achieved all three of his major goals for 1972-the first two being the visit to Peking and the Moscow summit. Nixon's principal concern was Thieu's reaction. I was -naively-optimistic...